There had been sight nor sound of my pathetic weakling of a daughter today since I had been to work. Not even to check in wit me what I wanted for dinner. Though that was probably for the better. Her very presence crushed my soul. Shattered my heart into a thousand pieces. Pieces I had to pick up and attempt to reassemble, only for them to be destroyed over and over… Everything about her was the vision of my mate. The very woman that she had destroyed. My precious Ivy. There was not a day that passed me by that I did not think of her. That I did not relive the moment she slipped away from me. All to bring that waste of a life into this world. The doctor had warned us that another child could be dangerous. The labour when Leo was born had been complex. So many difficulties. And it had ta